SaffronTrail is on YouTube | Recipe for a Winter Salad

Since I have decided that I will do something newsworthy, every single month of 2014 (at least newsworthy of the blog headlines), this is the big news of Jan 2014.

Saffron Trail is on YouTube. After Blog–Facebook Page–Twitter–one might think YouTube is the natural progression to this train of things.

We’ve started small, with some interesting tips, kitchen hacks, bite-sized recipe videos and will gradually go on to do slightly longer videos, but none too long that you’ll get bored watching

But, let me admit, it is a tough one to crack. Hats off to those who have made the transition successfully and are keeping at it.

I have teamed up with a fantastic bunch of people who pushed me into doing this thing and who are holding my hand all through this transition. I may not even have executed on my YouTube plan if it weren’t for them.

I’ll tell you why this is difficult. That the camera adds ten twenty pounds to your body is only too evident when you are the center of a video. Am I looking too fat? Is my hair too frizzy? Am I talking through my nose?

Is my accent laugh-worthy? All these questions and more, full of self-doubt, pop through your head while the lights are glaring into your face and the camera is on you.

It takes a fair bit of strength to accept that “this is who I am” and “I am not going to be ashamed to be myself, no matter what”, whether it is the extra weight or the mistimed boil on the chin or the throat that decided to take a break on the exact day that we had planned our shoot.

In fact, all through our first round shoot, I was coughing non-stop and somehow managed to say my lines in the middle of bouts of cough. My team mate kept giving me sips of green tea, warm water and generous cough breaks, to keep me going.

Being on video exposes the raw personality to the world – ‘this is how I look, this is how I cook – take it or leave it’, kind of exposure. Unless of course one is a seasoned actor who can successfully mask their real personality and play a role, which I can assure you I am not, and I doubt I can ever be.

Since I have decided that I will do something newsworthy, every single month of 2014 (at least newsworthy of the blog headlines), this is the big news of Jan 2014. Saffron Trail is on YouTube. After Blog--Facebook Page--Twitter--one might think YouTube is the natural progression to this train of thi